Issue seven of the e-TALC Health Development CD-ROM (red disk) is now available from TALC. e-TALC is a unique CD-ROM resource which aims to provide a regular source of reliable health information free to health care workers in developing countries. As of April 2005, over 50,000 copies of e-TALC have been distributed to over 4,000 recipients across the developing world.
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New JECH online submission and review system
The Editors of the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health are pleased to inform authors and reviewers of its new online submission and review system. Bench>Press is a fully integrated electronic system which uses the internet to allow rapid and efficient submission of manuscripts, as well as the entire peer review process to be conducted online. Authors can submit their manuscript in any standard word processing software. Graphic formats acceptable are: .jpg, .tiff, .gif, and eps. Text and graphic files are automatically converted to PDF for ease of distribution and reviewing purposes. Authors are asked to approve their submission before it formally enters the reviewing process. Full instructions can be found on Bench>Press, and JECH Online. Please contact Natalie Davies, Project Manager, for further information.
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Contact: ndavies@bmjgroup.com
New journal tackles global public health
Global Public Health is a new peer review journal that will engage with key public health issues in the global context - mounting inequalities between rich and poor; the globalisation of trade; new patterns of travel and migration; epidemics of newly-emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases; the increase in chronic illnesses; escalating pressure on public health infrastructures around the world; and the growing range of conflict situations and environmental threats.
New Journals from Nature
The Nature Publishing Group is pleased to announce the launch of three new review journals: Nature Reviews Immunology and Nature Reviews Cancer will launch in October 2001 and Nature Reviews Drug Discovery in January 2002 - ensuring that you receive high quality overviews whatever your discipline.
New key issues guide on Market Development Approaches
Eldis Health Systems Reporter, 18 May 2006
This new key issues guide, from the Health Systems Resource Guide, is a tool for donors, governments and implementers to learn about MDAs for reproductive health and begin thinking of options and issues to encourage, design, implement, manage and evaluate MDAs. Content includes MDA tools, examples of MDAs and country case studies.
New MASSIVE EFFORT CAMPAIGN website launched
The first phase of the new MASSIVE EFFORT CAMPAIGN website was recently launched. The site will soon be featuring: 1) World reports, photos and interviews from World TB Day activities around the world. 2) Opportunities to lobby decision makers about the importance of controlling TB. 3) A means to involve others in a global campaign against AIDS, TB, malaria
and other diseases of poverty. 4) Background on the new global campaign to mobilise society against diseases that keep people in poverty.
New online civil society project
Civil Society Gateway: 2010
If you’re working in civil society and looking to sharpen your skills in communicating effectively with the media about your work against poverty, the environment and other issues – especially if you’re presenting research from the South – then this online resource may be most helpful. The Civil Society Gateway aims to reduce isolation of civil society organisations, experts and other individuals by bringing them together in one place, where they can communicate on a wide range of themes. Easily searchable by geography and theme, this tool helps journalists and the media find the sources they need from civil society to produce their stories. The Civil Society Gateway was made possible through a partnership between CIVICUS (World Alliance for Citizen Participation) and the Inter Press Service (IPS), with the support of Oxfam Novib.
New online tool for tracking EU support for global health
Action for Global Health: 2010
In 1970, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 2626 (1), which pledged for the first time that developed nations would provide 0.7% of their wealth in foreign aid. Forty years later this pledge has yet to be realised and currently looks unlikely to be met. On the 40th anniversary of the Resolution, Action for Global Health has launched an ‘Action Tracker’, an online tool that tracks the contributions that European Union (EU) member states make to improve health in developing countries. It determines whether or not these states are actually providing 0.7% of their wealth for development aid, and calculates how much of this aid is devoted to health. So far the Action Tracker has data on about half the countries in the EU, but will develop over time to include all 27 EU member states. It will also assess to what extent they are implementing their commitments to make this aid more effective and ensuring their other policies support health in developing countries.
New platform: Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
This platform, launched and run by the United Nations’ programme, The World We Want 2015, is an open and inclusive consultation space to discuss the role of health in the post 2015 development agenda. The platform is hoping to draw a representative cross section of views and start to build consensus in five key areas: What are the lessons learnt from the health related MDGs? What is the priority health agenda for the 15 years after 2015? How does health fit in the post 2015 development agenda? What are the best indicators and targets for health? And how can country ownership, commitment, capacity and accountability for the goals, targets and indicators be enhanced? The platform is co-convened by the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children’s Fund, in collaboration with the Government of Sweden, and will run from October to March 2012.
New postgraduate programme for communication in health
University of Witwatersrand: September 2010
The Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication and the Wits School of Public Health have launched a post-graduate degree programme aimed at developing professionals who will promote and implement social and behaviour change communication in health. The study of Social and Behaviour Change Communication will look at a host of health challenges, including tuberculosis, malaria, chronic and lifestyle diseases. Behaviour change in relation to HIV, for which a vast field of study already exists, will also form part of the curriculum. The division will help students develop skills to apply social and behavioural theory to a range of interventions that include social mobilisation, advocacy, social marketing, edutainment and monitoring and evaluation.